Parker, Green, Splitter all expected back for Nuggets

Tony Parker, Danny Green and Tiago Splitter are all expected back in the lineup for Wednesday’s home game against Denver after skipping the Spurs’ 113-91 victory over Philadelphia on Monday.

Parker was listed with a sore Achilles tendon, while Green and Splitter were rested.

Parker, who has missed 11 games this season with at least four different ailments, jokingly bristled when asked about the latest.

“Why you ask me that?” he said. “It’s fine.”

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said after Monday’s game that, having been so careful to rest Parker, Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili over the years, the rest of his roster deserves similar attention.

“I don’t want to just worry about Tim, Tony and Manu,” he said. “Those guys have been playing a lot of minutes. Danny has had that wrist (sprain) and Tiago has been doing yeoman’s work underneath the last two, three, four games as far as having to be banging around with those big guys. It was great to give…his body a little bit of a rest. It worked out well.”

Matt Bonner, however, will be out for roughly two weeks after an MRI to examine the calf strain that has kept him out the past two games.